scratchdisk/backup drive for newbie

[mike789]

I just bought an portable hard drive for my mac because the film program I'm getting into recommends getting our own to use as a scratch disk and to save our work when in the lab. When I connected it, time machine asked if i wanted to use it to back up my mac. So I want you're opinion/advice. As someone who won't be doing tons of work and saving huge files on the hard drive should I use it as both scratchdisk & backup? I don't really know how time machine works exactly but can't I partition the drive or something so that time machine can only use so much space?

thanks

 

[-DH]

I would NOT recommend letting Time Machine utilize a drive that's being used for video editing.

-DH

 

[fluidedge]

i agree with DH

buy a cheap 120GB USB drive for Time machine and get a FW800/7200 rpm drive for Video editing.

HTH!

 

[mike789]

thank you